Lolz. No secret. Just practice practice practice (and lotsa doodles). I've been trying for more than a year. Lolz. Just on one character. Kinda sad case huh. Really good artists out there can come up with any character they want, almost instantly. Yep, loooong way to go

Wow, for a 1st time, it's really something! I can't remember my first, but I kno it was really bad. And being quite stubborn, I like to draw without reference. Well, most of the time anyway. So the initial drawings didn't really improve till I started really looking at the manga along the way.

oh you think so? well it was my first drawing but if you look at my other attempts like on the same picture. i did color pencil then fixed sakura's weird head lol stufff like that so i guess its my first FINAL picture hehe